People with diabete, cholesterol, hypertension, headache, ulcer or stomach acidity, you should seek for legumes to eat during summer for a better control. Please do not worry about ans just follow what God created for you and keep respecting these things, so, you will have less health problems than before. The season of potatoes is over, but the bottle gourd is available instead. Everything created in nature is just to meet the body’s need in nutrients. Yet It contains minerals (potassium, zinc, iron megnesium andmanganese), vitamins (C, thiamin, riboflavin), fibres and phytonutrients including polyphenols. All these elements are required for the body during the summer season. Calories are not needed during this season.

Unfortunately, the bottle gourd is the most neglected among all vehetables. Now it should be more indicated for people suffering from the above mentionned diseases. The bottle gourd is an alkalizing diet material which can help lowering lipids in the body as well as chollesterol in blood.

The bottle gourd, also called the calabash gourd, is a kind of bottle shapped squash, but it is a seasonal legume which may grow only in summer. It is a suitable vegetable during the hot season because of its natural refrigerant effect. Trying to change the natural occuring phenomena may lead to  corruption, any change in these phenomena may lead to many other changes in the nature, so the rôle played by these may be reduced. The bottle gourd is a summer legume and it should be consummed in summer for its helping properties in this season.

All the part around the seeds is edible and could be eaten after cooking or raw as a juice. The bottle gourd is emetic and purgative. It is a low calories food and may have a high content in potassium and other minerals for maintaining a water balance in the body. Leaves and the stem bark as wel as the rind around the fruits is diuretic. The juice of bootle gourd is used for ulcers and stomach acidity relief. Crushed leaves as poultice could be also applied to the head for treating headaches. Both leaves and flowers are antidote to poison especially insect bites. Seeds had been described in many practices and vermifuge, boiled seeds are also beneficial for the boils treatment. The plant extract had also shown an antibiotic activity. The high content of potassium and fibre may suggest a very important legume for diabetics. It could be a very regulating legume for the serum glucose concentration in diabetes mellitus patients. The effect of bottle gourd on cholesterol is known and it may have a high antihyperlipidemic activity.